Sentences with phrase «film about a young woman»

It's a film about a young woman whose life gets gradually and brutally torn apart for lack of stable housing.

WES CRAVEN»S «THEY» Though the alternate title is «Wes Craven Presents «They,»» Craven neither wrote, directed nor produced this middling horror film about a young woman who becomes the target of unspecified demon forces from the other side.

Wendy and Lucy — Oscilloscope Pictures, 80 mins — Kelly Reichert wrote and directed this beautiful film about a young women trying to find her way through the difficulties of daily life.

La Strada — The great Giulietta Masina stars in this Federico Fellini film about a young woman sold off by her family to be the wife of a traveling strongman, played by a dubbed - into - Italian Anthony Quinn.

If I, a dude who grew up in Ohio, can identify this intensely with this film about a young woman in Sacramento, something about the movie must tap into a shared reality on the human continuum.

In other hands, «The Diary of a Teenage Girl» could feel like a standard period film about a young woman's sexual and artistic awakening, but Heller and Powley have made this a vital experience filled with creativity and wonder.

Not exact matches

All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption.»

The sweet woman giving us our tickets was a bit taken back when she saw how young our boys were and wondered why they were about to see this film and not a kid's movie.

Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

1996's The Darien Gap followed — a feature - length effort about a young man (Lyn Voss, portraying himself) whose persistent dreams of filming the great Patagonian sloth prevent him from sustaining a relationship with the woman he loves (Sandi Carroll).

Hazanavicius has his fun with his smartarse New Wave pastiches, but the core of his film is about how a self - important goon treats a blameless young woman terribly, then gets away with it — having only a lifetime of adulation to look forward to.

In 2011, a film was released called Pariah, about a young, African American woman who is quietly but assuredly embracing her sexuality.

In Olivier Assayas's English - language film Personal Shopper, Stewart's haunted look comes mesmerizingly into its own in a story about a young woman hoping to communicate with the beyond.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

The film is about a pair of clever young thieves who rob the houses of rich people, but one day one of them winds up at a home where a woman is being held against her will.

We're also fans of several films about difficult young women, including Carrie Pilby about a female Holden Caulfield, Nelly about the Quebecois novelist Nelly Arcand, and Toni Erdmann.

The film's entire philosophy can be summed up in a scene where Sam, about to have sex with a nubile young woman, realizes that he loves his wife and can't go through with the indiscretion after all.

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

In a few words, Kiarostami's film is about a prostitute assigned to an old client who does not seem to want sex and who becomes a grandfather figure in the young woman's perception.

The Archer Film Festival strives to bridge that divide by empowering and highlighting young filmmakers who share the goal of increasing the number of women in the film and television industry, and to participate in the conversation about women's representation onscreen.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

«Room,» an adaption of the best - selling novel about a woman raising her young son inside a solitary room, won runner - up in the best film race.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

As a film about breaking down taboos and exploring the life and experience of a young woman growing up in the early 1960s, the film is invaluable, a snapshot of life at a tumultuous period of transition.

Claire Foy stars as a young woman who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution; other than that, the only thing we know about the film is that Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple are in the cast.

There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» the wise, warm story about a young woman finding and asserting herself while dealing with her conflicted feelings toward a mother she can never seem to please, then you know that Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, has a keen eye for detail.

But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

Hepburn's official final film before entering semi-retirement was Wait Until Dark, Terence Young's lean, nerve - racking adaptation of Frederick Knott's popular stage play about a newly blind woman, Susy, trying to outwit a trio of drug - dealing thugs (played in the film by Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, and Jack Weston).

While the slower pacing in the beginning of the film, as well as the focus on the strength and empowerment of all three young women may not interest fans of «more traditional» westerns, the film is a fantastic look at the willpower and resolve of three strong capable women in the face of some of the worst conditions that war can bring about.

Because so many haven't yet sees the film, its plot must go undescribed, but suffice it to say it's about an encounter between a young woman (Dree Hemingway) and an old woman (Besedka Johnson) that spawns an uneasy relationship, during the course of which their pasts and presents come to light.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

The film is a modern coming - of - age drama about a young woman named Maggie (Iseult Casey) who sets off on a road - trip from Ireland to London with her boyfriend Andy (Shane Murray - Corcoran) in order to have an abortion.

-- «Son of the Sheik» (1926): Image Entertainment has released a beautifully restored edition of Valentino's last and best film, about a young Arab who abducts a woman and falls in love.

«Brooklyn» Much has been said about how relevant the film's immigrant storyline is to modern day political controversies, but at its core the picture beautifully portrays the journey of a young woman into adulthood.

As India, the fatherless young woman who comes to suspect her «Uncle Charlie» is a murderer, Wasikowska deftly uses her delicate features as a counterbalance to her character's darker and more perverse proclivities — for the film is less a mystery about who Uncle Charlie is and more so who India really is.

Set around the holidays, it stars Anna Kendrick as a young woman who, after breaking up with her boyfriend, moves in with her brother (Swanberg), his wife (Melanie Lynskey, who starred in 2012's «Hello I Must Be Going,» another Sundance film about a girl who gets dumped, goes home and grows up) and their two - year - old son.

Raw combines the body horror of cannibal films with a sexual coming - of - age story about a young woman attending veterinarian school, where a hazing ritual awakens all manner of new appetites.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.

His latest, shot in Super 16 mm film, is about a young woman (Anna Kendrick) who has just broken up with her boyfriend and needs to crash on her big brother's couch - but he's got a wife and kid, space and money are tight, and it's a cold Christmas in Chicago.

This feature chronicles a young Philadelphia lesbian named Cheryl (Cheyl Dunye) in the midst of researching a film project about a bygone black performer known as the Watermelon Woman.

For Timothée Chalamet, who plays Lady Bird's mansplaining crush, Kyle, Gerwig encouraged viewings of Éric Rohmer films to study «young men talking at women about their ideas.»

Alexandre Moors («Blue Caprice») will direct a remake of the Korean film «Failan»,» about a young woman who enters into an arranged marriage with a gangster she's never met and connects with him via a series of letters.

Few filmmakers could do anything original or vibrant by making yet another film about a creative yet difficult man (who's also in a relationship with a younger woman), but that's what Paul Thomas Anderson does in Phantom Thread.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

A serious - minded and decidedly adult fairy tale about a virginal young woman who learns from her brother (Malcolm McDowell) that they are descended from a race of human - panther hybrids doomed to revert to their murderous feline state while making love to anyone outside of their own bloodline — a problem as she has just fallen in love with a sweet - natured zookeeper (John Heard) who specializes in big cats — this is a film swimming in sex, violence, poetry, philosophy and swanky visuals in such extremes that it always seems to be on the verge of becoming utterly ridiculous but it somehow never goes over the edge into camp because of Schrader's serious - minded handling of the material; it may be nonsense but he never treats it as such.

Though Leo's expert performance in a role that might have seemed overly familiar dominates at times, this film's focus, as its title indicates, is on its young women, filled as they are with heartbreaking doubts and worries about their relationships to one another and to Christ.